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Offline Fox

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pottbelly Coal stove firebox?
« on: March 05, 2020, 11:49:11 am »
Im building a forge and am wandering what all of you use for forge blowers... and im useing an old cast iron potbelly coal stove for the firebox you guys think that will work? thanks


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Offline Deerhunter21

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Re: pottbelly Coal stove firebox?
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2020, 06:00:46 pm »
Hairdryer :)
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: pottbelly Coal stove firebox?
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2020, 06:42:54 pm »
One of my forges has a furnace blower on it.

Offline DC

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Re: pottbelly Coal stove firebox?
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2020, 11:05:00 am »
For the small amount of forging I've done I used a hair drier. It worked well but it was noisy. If I was to do it again I would find a nice quiet squirrel cage fan.